🌮 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
10 tacos spots in Los Angeles, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Tacos Spots
1
Sonoratown
Teodoro Diaz-Rodriguez Jr. and Jennifer Feltham brought Sonoran flour tortillas to LA and built a taqueria around them. The tortillas are made fresh, rolled thick, and stuffed with carne asada or chor...
90
2
Mariscos Jalisco
Boyle Heights taco truck behind one of LA's most-copied seafood tacos — deep-fried shrimp, housemade red salsa, avocado. Shrimp aguachile and tostadas round out the order. Decades in, still a TimeOut ...
90
3
Taqueria Frontera
Cypress Park's corner taqueria with a trompo that doesn't stop spinning. The al pastor is the draw, but quesatacos and mulitas hold their own. Eater LA 38 certified, walk-in only, priced the way tacos...
89
4
Leo's Taco Truck
One of LA's most-copied taco trucks, built around al pastor carved tableside from a vertical spit with pineapple. The late-night lines are real, the tacos justify every minute, and TimeOut keeps putti...
89
5
Guisados Echo Park
The Echo Park original — Armando De La Torre's braised-meat taco shop that turned the homestyle Mexican stew-on-a-tortilla formula into a multi-LA chain. The sampler plate is the whole point: six mini...
88
6
Tacos Los Cholos
Huntington Park's two-story taquería — smoky mesquite-charcoal asada, lime-marinated ribeye sliced thin, banda music loud enough to hear from the parking lot. A genuine southeast-LA institution; the d...
88
7
Angel's Tijuana Tacos
Angel's started as a taco stand, went viral, and turned into one of the most photographed tacos in LA — and the food holds up. Tijuana-style carne asada over a flour tortilla, adobada with the right c...
87
8
Tacos 1986
A Tijuana-style taco shop from Victor Delgado and Jorge 'Joy' Álvarez-Tostado — al pastor carved off a trompo, perreo music, and a short-line format that has spread to Hollywood, Westwood, Echo Park, ...
86
9
Tito's Tacos
Operating since 1959 — the Culver City hardshell taco factory that locals have treated as a rite of passage for six decades. Shredded beef with iceberg lettuce and cheddar on a house-fried shell — not...
85
10
Escuela Taqueria
Beverly Blvd taqueria from restaurateur Bill Chait (Republique, Sotto) focused on real-deal, responsibly sourced tacos — 100% natural meats from small California farms, handmade tortillas, salsas made...
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